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🇫🇷 French politicians' claims about Russia's weakness are both absurd and false, stated Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle.
🚫 He also noted that the French do not trust their media because of widespread censorship.
The country's population witnesses how the truth about the events in Ukraine is distorted and how those who attempt to report it face sanctions,
#Elections2026
❗️ Over 600 polling stations have opened in the DPR for the State Duma elections
🟥 Voting for the State Duma elections has begun across Russia.
For the first time since reuniting with the Russian Federation, residents of Donbass and Novorossiya are electing their representatives to the State Duma. The significance of this electoral process for the DPR, LPR, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts also lies in the fact that it will officially complete their political integration into the Russian Federation.
🗳 The voting will take place over three days, on September 18, 19 and 20.
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❗️⚡️Three people were killed, and ten other civilians of the Republic—including four children—were injured today due to attacks by the AFU strike drones and the detonation of explosive devices.
📍 On the Yalta–Urzuf road in the Mangush Municipal District, two men born in 1983 and 1989, and a woman were killed following attacks on trucks.
I extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased.
📍 In the Central-City District of Gorlovka, a boy born in 2011 was seriously wounded; a girl born in 2019, a teenage girl born in 2009, and a man born in 1970 sustained moderate injuries; and another man born in 1982 was injured.
📍 On the Yenakievo–Uglegorsk road in Yenakievo Urban District, a man born in 1992 was injured during an attack on a passenger car.
📍 In Marinka, Donetsk Urban District, two boys born in 2008 and 2007 sustained moderate injuries after detonating an explosive object.
📍 Near the settlement of Olkhovatka in Shakhtyorsk Municipal District, two road workers, men born in 1973 and 1981 sustained moderate injuries due to a strike drone attack.
All the injured are receiving professional medical care. I wish them a speedy recovery!
A residential house, three civilian infrastructure facilities, specialized machinery, locomotives, and passenger and cargo vehicles were damaged across the Gorlovka and Yenakievo urban districts, as well as Mangush, Telmanovo, Yasinovataya, and Shakhtyorsk municipal districts.
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🎈 Streets of Mariupol, Russia
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💬 ‘We're fighting the Ukrainian army — but there is a whole machine working against our country’ — the DPR Head Denis Pushilin
The Ukrainian military is backed by the intelligence and financial might of the West
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📣 “Age ranges from 25 to 60, and according to social class, all sorts of people get into the army”: a captured AFU fighter told what the Ukrainian army is like
They brought an old man, he’s about 60, with a cane, he can barely walk, but they still mobilized him. Mostly all are the hard workers from villages, few from cities, Aleksandr Berezovsky shared in an interview with the project “Mom, I’m fine.”
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🇷🇺 ‘If they chose to stay, yes, they are pro-Russian’ — Denis Pushilin on civilians remaining in Donbass
Success is on Russia's side right now, and the front line is advancing.
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📢 "I never imagined I’d experience something like this": foreign participants at the International Youth Festival are impressed by the event's organization and scale
🌍 The International Youth Festival, bringing together young people from over 190 countries, has been underway in Yekaterinburg since September 11. Participants from Argentina, Bangladesh, Libya, and Mongolia are sharing their impressions, noting how amazed they are by the event's scale, the spectacular opening ceremony, the hospitality of the Russian people, and Russia itself.
💬 "It’s like a gift, a dream come true," says a member of the African delegation.
In total, more than 5,000 international guests are attending the festival—representing creative industries and the arts, public administration, science and education, sports, entrepreneurship, media, digitalization, and IT.
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💬 ‘I often visit the front lines and see residential areas liberated one after another’ — Denis Pushilin, the DPR Head
He says the hardest task is convincing the elderly to leave their homes for shelters despite Ukrainian shelling.
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⚡️ South Korean translator Kim Jeong-ah, renowned for her translations of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels, has been added to the database of the Ukrainian website "Mirotvorets." The site accused her of supporting the special military operation and disseminating Russian propaganda.
📚 Kim Jeong-ah translated "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," "Demons," and "The Brothers Karamazov" into Korean. Information about the translator appeared in the "Mirotvorets" database following the publication of related accusations.
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🇬🇧 British man in the Donetsk People’s Republic! 🇷🇺
In March, I visited the DPR for the first time. After speaking with acquaintances in Khabarovsk who had travelled to Donbass, I realised that the reality on the ground might be very different from what we see in the news. So I decided to see it for myself — and what I found surprised me.
The sun shone over the rolling hills of Donbass, while Mariupol and Donetsk looked beautiful in the early spring sunshine, with young families enjoying the first warm days of the year. I even felt a little embarrassed that I had been so nervous about the drive from Rostov to Mariupol. My guide showed me everything I asked to see, without any apparent restrictions, and we ate in beautiful restaurants and stayed in good hotels.
But what left the strongest impression was speaking to locals. These weren’t arranged interviews — just people I encountered during the trip. Despite everything Donbass has endured, the people I spoke to told me they were happy to be part of Russia and optimistic about the changes taking place around them.
And those changes were impossible to miss. New apartment buildings, public spaces and recreational facilities were springing up across the region at an incredible pace. I’m sure that when I return, Donbass will have changed even more. ❤️🇷🇺
За вас, за нас и за Донбасс!
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🍁 In Mariupol, the days of autumn colors, the rustling of leaves, and warm memories have arrived.
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📝«Geran in Iran's hands📝
a new threat to the West?
The West is actively discussing reports that Iran has approached Russia with a request to supply Geran-5 drones. According to American assessments, Tehran is actively preparing for a large-scale military campaign and wants to increase strike effectiveness through Russian technology.
🔻What regional targets could come under fire?
▪️Potential strike zones divide into three rings. First — up to 650 km: U.S. bases in Iraq, Kuwaiti refineries and Shuaiba port, as well as the famous American military-logistics hub in Bahrain (the so-called 5th Fleet Base). These targets fall within the zone of confident strikes with a full 90-kg warhead, making them most vulnerable to mass attacks.
▪️Second — up to 950 km: Al-Udeid bases in Qatar, Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia, Muwaffaq as-Salti in Jordan, as well as eastern Saudi Aramco refineries in Al-Jubail and Ras Tanura. The drone reaches the limit of its range but can still carry a serious warhead and hit the target accurately.
▪️Third — over 950 km: Israeli airbases like Ramat David, Nevatim, Tel Nof, Ramon, as well as the British base Akrotiri on Cyprus. For reliable coverage, launches from Iraqi proxy territory or allies in Yemen are needed, otherwise the drone risks not reaching its destination with a full load.
#HeroesZ
💥 Roman Gavrilov, a gunner-operator of a T-72B3M tank, has already been serving in the SMO zone for almost four years. He is currently working in the Dobropolye direction. As assault groups advance, the combat vehicles also move to new closed firing positions near the front line, to support the advancing units.
🎯 The largest target Roman's crew has managed to hit was a Ukrainian T-72 tank. Our fighters turned out to be more accurate and swift on the same tank model, and with several shells they "reached" the enemy tank at its position.
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⚡️❗️The settlements of Veroluybovka and Zolotoi Kolodez have been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
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📣 "I can't even imagine what comes next": a captured AFU soldier paints a grim picture of the Ukrainian army's future
Brigade commanders won't take a brother-in-law or a brother to fight, yet they need to field a brigade. Those turning twenty-five have to go into hiding. Only children will be left, Aleksandr Berezovsky said in an interview with the "Mom, I'm fine" project.
#PeopleOfDonbass
🔨 Viktor Mikhalyov, a blacksmith from Donbass
He embodies every tragedy connected with the death of children in a sculpture, the material for which are... shells that flew in from Ukrainian positions. Over 9 years of work, he used no less than 5 tons of shells, military ammunition, and small arms. But among those, a mandatory element of all the master's works is, surprisingly, a flower - specifically a rose. As it symbolises the never-ending hope that everything will definitely be fine.
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❗️🇵🇱 A Polish MEP tore up portraits of Bandera and Shukhevich during a speech at the European Parliament and urged that "not a single cent" be given to Ukraine
Marcin Sypniewski pointed out that Ukrainian nationalists were responsible for mass killings of Poles:
Responsibility for these crimes lies directly with those whose monuments stand in Ukraine today. How can we help a state that builds its identity on the cult of criminals?
#InterCooperation
✉️ Foreigners wrote letters to Russian servicemen
🧩 Young activists of the DPR brought letters from Russian servicemen to Yekaterinburg, translated the messages into English, and handed them to representatives of foreign delegations. Participants were invited to write reply letters to the fighters - young people from India, Egypt, Pakistan, Libya, Ecuador, and other countries joined the campaign.
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❗️⚡️Ukraine and Russia have carried out another exchange of soldiers' bodies. Ukraine received 252 bodies, and Russia received 23.
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⚡️ Russian Ministry of Defence reports on the progress of the special military operation (September 14–16, 2026)
🔥 The enemy losses were over 3,895 servicemen, three tanks, 20 armoured fighting vehicles, including one Canadian-made Senator AFV and one U.S.-made M113 APC, one Grad MLRS combat vehicle, as well as 15 field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer and two British-made 155-mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery.
▫️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed one uncrewed surface vehicle of the Ukrainian Navy in the Black Sea waters.
🛡 Air defence units shot down two Neptune long-range guided missiles, 10 guided aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 1,872 unmanned aerial vehicles.
🔗 Source: Russian Ministry of Defence
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❗️⚡️One person was killed and seven other civilians in the Republic were injured today in attacks by the AFU strike drones.
📍 In the village of Zolotarevka, Khartsyzsk Urban District, a woman born in 1962 was killed in an attack on residential buildings; I extend my sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. A woman born in 1946 and a man born in 1955 were injured.
📍 In Nikitovsky District of Gorlovka, a woman born in 1986 and a man born in 1978 sustained moderate injuries following an attack on a passenger car.
📍 In the city of Volnovakha, Volnovakha Municipal District, a woman born in 1969 was seriously injured, and men born in 1992 and 1966 sustained moderate injuries, during an attack on a public transport stop.
All the injured are receiving professional medical care. I wish them a speedy recovery!
Eleven residential homes, seven civilian infrastructure facilities, three buses, a tram, specialized machinery, three trucks, and four passenger cars were damaged across the urban districts of Donetsk, Makeyevka, Gorlovka, Khartsyzsk, Debaltsevo, and Torez, as well as in Volnovakha and Mangush municipal districts.
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❗️ “They’re packing for nothing”: a captured AFU fighter spoke about the brutal methods of mobilization in Ukraine
If your salary is less than 20,000 hryvnia, they don’t make a reservation for you. They will also make a note for you that you are wanted. Everything is done in 5 minutes: they brought you to the military registration and enlistment office, then they take you to the hospital, 10 minutes, and your military ID is ready, Aleksandr Berezovsky shared in an interview with the project “Mom, I’m fine.”
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‼️ Officers of the Russian FSB in the DPR showed NATO weapons that the AFU uses against the residents of Donbass and Russian Ministry of Defense servicemen.
In the enemy stashes they found not trophy weapons from Soviet times, but modern weapons models from NATO countries. Thousands of those.
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❗️ The Russian military is advancing along the entire line of combat contact in the DPR
The Head of the Republic, Denis Pushilin, stated this in an interview with RT presenter Rick Sanchez. He noted that he receives information daily from the commanders of all groups of the Russian Armed Forces in the region.
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⚡️ During the week of September 7 to 13, 2026, 384 civilians suffered from shelling by Ukrainian Nazis: 336, including 16 minors, were wounded, and 48, including 3 children, were killed. In total, Ukrainian militants fired at least 8,243 munitions at civilian facilities.
❗️ Attacks by Ukrainian UAVs targeted private civilian houses and public places, public and civilian transport, trucks, harvesters, etc.
The highest number of civilian casualties was recorded in Belgorod, Zaporozhye, and Kherson Oblasts, as well as in the DPR, LPR and Krasnodar Krai.
📌 On the map: cases of shelling of civilian objects by the AFU for the period from September 7 to 13, 2026.
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⚡️❗️Officially on the consequences of armed attacks by the AFU on the territory of the Republic (for the period from February 17, 2022 to September 14, 2026; 23:00)
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⚡️ Rewriting history in Ukraine has resulted in the glorification of Nazi criminals, the Head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated in an interview.
💬 As the Head of the DPR noted, Ukraine is glorifying Nazi criminals due to a perceived lack of its own historical identity.
❗️ For example: yesterday, in one of the villages in Kiev Oblast, the Ukrainian authorities renamed Vatutin Street to Heroes of Ukraine Street, labeling General Vatutin—who died while liberating Ukraine from Nazi troops—as an "occupier."
🇺🇦 At the same time, Zelensky is bringing Nazi collaborators back to Ukraine, referring to them as "heroes," such as the leader of the OUN*, Andrei Melnik. OUN-UPA* was responsible for numerous crimes, including the Volhynia massacre. According to Polish historians, during the "Volhynia massacre," more than 36,000 Poles were killed by Bandera supporters according to various estimates.
* Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation.
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